Fiskars 26.12.

The name of the work is a date. On that day a stood in Fiskars in Espoo, photographed and drew the landscape surrounding me as 360 degrees wide on paper. When drawing I did not know the result and the making process had different phases, wich I documented in photos.

First I moved the drawing on transparances as a circle. From the drawing I chose important elements, wich I adjusted to the gallery space. I simplyfied and chose the elements of the landscape, for example the trees, the path and the horizon so as to design sculptural parts scaled to the space. As a material I chose styrox foam on wich I sprayed a thick paint.

The horizon is a long object, the near by bushes their own elements, the path leading far away is its own, the distant reed bed its own. The work showes my point of view in the landscape.

Photo 1 Juhani Autio

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The second part of my Master`s degree in the Academy of Fine Arts was an exhibition `To be Precise` in the gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Fafa in Helsinki in 2010.

The exhibition had two installations, the other one was called `The Way´ and the other didn`t have any name. The Way is nine metres long and extended from one end of the corridor like space to the other end. The upper side is grayish and coated with leaves and sand, the underside is lumpy and full of roots. Is a way or road only an idea of moving or a three-dimensional object? What material is it, if it is only formed when the soil is pressed?

Does one find his own way only by making it concretely himself?